Re: why ms->pmsa_xip is used?

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On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:15:22 -0400, 
Takao Indoh <indou.takao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>As Intel manual says, it seems that pmsa_iip has a value of ip register
>where INIT interrupted when psr.ic is 0. Ok, I'll make a patch so that
>pmsa_iip is used irrespective of a value of psr.ic.
>
>Please let me know if I need to confirm something else before I make a
>patch.

That looks good.  The only problem I can think of is an MCA/INIT
arriving while code like SAVE_MIN or SAVE_REST is executing.  Back
tracing at that point using pmsa_iip is going to be a problem, you have
no idea what state the registers or stack are in.

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